1. Romeo and Juliet Revision Tybalt
Act1 Scene 1 opens with a fight between the Montagues and Capulet servants.
Explain how far you think Shakespeare presents Tybalt’s aggression as a result of the feud between the families

2. Non negotiables Elizabethan society Refer to Shakespeare’s intention
Tragedy (genre)
Dramatic irony
Modern and contemporary audience response
Strong and emotive vocabulary to capture character/theme
Contextualise extract (very concisely)
Prologue can always be relevant to the question

3. Tybalt – word wall Barbaric Murderous Arrogant Confrontational
Cruel Unscrupulous
Savage Heartless
Violent Hostile
Fearless Calculated
Hot headed Fuelled by hate

4. Prologue In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
“Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean”
Long standing hatred
New violence
Exposition
Sonnet form
Foreshadows
Dramatic irony
AO2

5. Act 1 “thrice disturb’d the quiet of our streets”
Prince (voice of reason/impartial/wise)
“thrice disturb’d the quiet of our streets”
“your pernicious rage”
Romeo to Benvolio (1/1) when he sees blood on Benvolio “O brawling love, O loving hate!” (antithesis/futility/irony/growing self awareness about the feud)
17th century Elizabethan England – climate of violence and conflict :religious rivalry between the Protestants and the Catholics

6. The Extract
Remember – you need to select ideas/quotes that have scope for AO1/2/3.
“Part fools!” – implication of the label “fools” (link to Benvolio’s opinion of the feud/what is he like as a man? (AO2 and AO3)
“heartless hinds?” – pun/timid servants/female deer ‘hart’/insults their masculinity and asserts his sense of authority and superiority (AO2 and AO3)
“look upon thy death” – threat/danger/confident aggression/no doubt/foreshadowing (AO2)
“talk of peace!” – exclamatory/mocks Benvolio/no hope (AO2 and AO3)
“I hate that word, As I hate hell” – juxtaposes peace with hate/alliteration provides auditory emphasis – extent of his dark and macabre intentions (AO2)
“coward!” – Tybalt’s perception of peace is to lack bravery/he has no respect for Benvolio and desires nothing but violence and vengeance (AO2 and AO3 (audience response across time)
“down with the Capulets! Down with the Montagues!” – blame on both sides/repetition/exclamatory
Shakespeare’s intention?

7. Play as a whole - Tybalt “A Montague, our foe “ (1/5)
“by the stock and honor of my kin, To strike him dead I hold it not a sin” (1/5)
On being told he cannot avenge Romeo’s trespassing at the ball: "I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall, / Now seeming sweet, convert to bitt'rest gall“ (1.5)
He is the personification of hate and the masculine ideal in his passionate violence and sense of brotherhood

8. Play as a whole – Act 3
His death in Act 3 is a pivotal moment in the play/action spirals toward ultimate tragedy after this event…
Romeo to Typbalt (3.1) “I love thee better than thou canst devise” (AO2/dramatic irony/impact of feud and forgiveness/futile nature of rivalry)
“King of Cats2
To Romeo “thou art a villain”

9. Act 5 – Romeo offers forgiveness to Tybalt
O, what more favor can I do to thee, Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain To sunder his that was thine enemy? Forgive me, cousin.— Tragedy is caused by futile violence and the feud – Lord Capulet “Poor sacrifices of our enmity.”

10. Themes to revise Love Hate/rivalry/violence Death Friendship/family
Presentation of women/men
Key characters (Romeo/Juliet/Tybalt/Mercutio/Benvolio/Friar)
Minor (but important) characters (Nurse/Prince/parents)